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(Video from YouTube, by perrintrucking - 7 April 2010: Circulating amidst Tamaulipas and Chihuahua/MEX)
Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Jami Jones -April 8, 2011: – Despite unified calls from the trucking industry, members of Congress, safety groups and highway users, the Obama administration revealed its plan on Friday afternoon to forge ahead with its plan to open the border to long-haul trucks from Mexico... The plan is to implement a three-stage program... In the first stage of the program, each truck participating in the program will be inspected each time it enters the US... However, the plan is for licenses to be checked only 50 percent of the time... The plan also confirms that trucks from Mexico will be equipped with GPS or electronic on-board recorders – paid for by the Department of Transportation... Spencer pointed out that U.S. trucking companies and truck drivers must contend with ever-increasing safety, homeland security and environmental regulations that dramatically affect their costs of operation as well as their ability to make a living at their chosen profession. Mexico does not have a regulatory system for its trucking industry and drivers that is even remotely equivalent to the one in the U.S. ...
* DC - US to pay up to $2.5M for Mexican truck data recorders. Devices will ensure compliance with safety regulations
(Video from YouTube, by Roadchubbs - 14 Dec 2007: Trucking through Arizona and New Mexico)
Washington,DC,USA -The Arizona Daily Star -9 April 2011: -- The United States will pay as much as $2.5 million from the federal Highway Trust Fund to equip Mexican trucks with electronic data recorders to ensure safety compliance, according to a Transportation Department fact sheet... The data recorders are necessary to ensure Mexican companies are complying with safety regulations, the department said in a memorandum emailed to industry groups Friday. The U.S. funding will stop when the three-year pilot program for cross-border truck traffic ends, the department said... The Highway Trust Fund, the main source of money for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, is financed through U.S. fuel taxes... In addition to data recorders tracking Mexican drivers' hours of service, the trucks will have global positioning systems, according to the Federal Register notice... The devices will ensure that Mexican carriers don't violate cabotage laws, which forbid foreign trucks from making deliveries between U.S. cities, the American Trucking Associations said in a statement... Continuation of cross-border truck traffic will depend on "reciprocity" from Mexico, or allowing U.S. carriers south of the border, the Transportation Department said...
Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Apr 11, 2011: -- The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration released plans Friday for a new pilot trucking project with Mexico "to test and demonstrate" the ability of Mexican truckers to operate safely within the U.S. beyond the border commercial zone... Mexican carriers would proceed through a series of three stages during the program and could obtain permanent U.S. operating authority within 18 months. Carriers that participated in the previous pilot project would get credit for that time... Mexico would have to grant U.S. truckers reciprocal rights south of the border before the program could be launched. Currently, four of the 10 U.S. motor carriers that participated in the last pilot project still operate in Mexico, the FMCSA said... The Department of Transportation said it "does not propose to exempt or relieve Mexico-domiciled motor carriers from any safety regulation." Mexican carriers would have to pass DOT safety audits and comply with all U.S. laws and regulations...
